"Synthetism" - Pluto Festival Belgium

Around 1888, several artists gathered around Paul Gauguin with a desire to stand out of the Impressionist movement.

These artists do not paint over the place of observation, but in the studio, in conditions of laboratory.

The aim was to recreate a image, by synthesizing the mental image reconstructed from memory. The technique was to mark the outline, to highlight color avoiding the details and with wish to capture the core without realism.

This installation does not attempt to assimilate to these painters but rather their approach and their philosophy.

This work is in progress and only the visual part, which may take many forms, is almost finalized. Neither sound synthesis or behavioral characteristics of the work are still under way (Summer 2011).